This is the biggest tornado ever recorded. Upgrade your browsing experience with Opera’s built-in tools for speed, privacy, and customization. Try it now: https://opr.as/Opera-browser-astrumearth ▀▀▀▀▀▀ How did the world’s biggest tornado manage to catch the world’s experts completely off guard? The 2013 El Reno tornado came out of nowhere, broke the scales, and changed the way we look at extreme weather forever. In this video, we’ll dive into the science behind the storm to find out exactly what made this one so uniquely terrifying. ▀▀▀▀▀▀ 0:00 World’s Biggest Tornado 3:03 How It Formed 8:19 No Ordinary Supercell 11:07 Bottom-Up Formation 11:43 Wedge 14:36 Multiple Vortices 18:26 Satellite Tornado 19:56 Tim Samaras 26:03 The EF Scale 30:09 What We Know Now ▀▀▀▀▀▀ A huge thanks to our Patreons who help make these videos possible. Sign-up here to support the channel: https://bit.ly/4aiJZNF Check out the other Astrum channels for videos about space and astronomy: Astrum: https://www.youtube.com/@astrumspace Astrum Extra: https://www.youtube.com/@astrumextra Astrum Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6jPRrbq3o3dpvBb173ZTKi?si=a90d3efe3b704c83 Astrum Infographic Artwork: https://electrify.art/collections/astrum Astrum Displate Posters: https://astrumspace.info/Displates Astrum Merch: https://astrum-shop.fourthwall.com/ Join us on the Astrum discord: https://discord.gg/TKw8Hpvtv8 ▀▀▀▀▀▀ References: “The May 31, 2013 Tornado”, via weather.gov https://astrumspace.info/elrenoweather “Record-breaking El Reno Tornado”, via gatech.edu https://astrumspace.info/elrenorecord “Crowdsourcing the El Reno Tornado”, via ametsoc.org https://astrumspace.info/elrenostudy1 “Tornadogenesis and Early Tornado Evolution in El Reno, 2013”, via ametsoc.org https://astrumspace.info/elrenogenesis “A Multiscale Overview of the El Reno Supercell, 2013”, via ametsoc.org https://astrumspace.info/ersupercell “Ground Based Damage Survey El Reno”, via researchgate.net https://astrumspace.info/elrenosurvey “The Multiple-Vortex Structure of the El Reno 2013 Tornado”, via ametsoc.org https://astrumspace.info/elrenovortex “The Role of Multiple-Vortex Tornado Structure in Causing Storm Researcher Fatalities”, via ametsoc.org https://astrumspace.info/elrenofatalities “Tim Samaras”, via nationalgeographic.com https://astrumspace.info/timsamaras “EF3 Rating for El Reno Tornado”, via nationalgeographic.com https://astrumspace.info/elrenoef3 ▀▀▀▀▀▀ Credits: Narrator: James Stewart Writer: Jess Jordan Video Editor: Matt Jamie Animator: Peter Sheppard Researcher: Shourya Shrivastava Script Editor: Damaris McColgan Thumbnail Designer: Peter Sheppard Publishing Lead: Georgina Brenner Production Manager: Raquel Taylor Edit Producer: Poppy Pinnock Producers: Alex McColgan, James Stewart Head of Astrum: Jess Jordan Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan With special thanks to: Skip Talbot at Skip Talbot Storm Chasing - https://www.youtube.com/skiptalbot Dr. Jana Houser Dr. Howard Bluestein Bill Reid George Kourounis Christopher Riske ▀▀▀▀▀▀ #AstrumEarth #Astrum #Tornado
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I recently saw a meme asking about how Dinosaurs fared in Tornados and that is something I haven't been able to stop thinking about.
Saw the date and went no it’s gonna be el Reno 😭 RIP twistex and everyone else who lost their lives in that tornado.
Over here thinking "alright, we talking Joplin, El Reno, or Moore...."
That moment when you're knee jerk reaction is "that's kind of an un impressive tornado picture" and you have to remind yourself the ENTIRE wall of storm is the tornado
Rain-wrapped tornadoes are nightmare fuel.
I’ve watched more videos about this tornado than any other tornado, and I still don’t get bored of learning about it
The EF scale definitely needs to be updated because if that tornado had hit a a more populus area it would 100% been an F5
Tornados are a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. The storms are fascinating and beautiful in a way… but they also shred whole neighbourhoods and take lives. I appreciate that you don’t try to dramatise what happened that day. You’re a lot more respectful than a number of chasers and content creators on YouTube
the El Reno was a multivortex tornado from birth, that video you showed when it first touched down and said it was just a small single funnel was a sub vortex and it would've shown multiple small ones like that going around had you played it longer lol
Love the way you pronounce El Reno... we Oklahomans don't pronounce it that way so it was definitely hilarious. I was working in Moore the day the 2013 Moore tornado hit. Normally, after we have a tornado, the weather clears up and calms down for awhile. But, for those 2 weeks between the Moore tornado and the El Reno tornado, the weather never calmed down. It was storm after storm; the atmosphere was definitely energized. I've always wondered if those crazy 2 weeks somehow helped build up the El Reno tornado into the monster it became.
I always thought that the EF scale being based on damage was silly even before learning about the El Reno tornado.
I think there should be two ratings one for data and the other for damage
Saw the title and immediately knew it had to be El Reno.
EL Reno! It’s pronounced with a long “e” - El Reeno. My mom and dad lived there for awhile in the late 1940s. They experienced their first earthquake there!
I worked south of El Reno in a Fracking yard and drove north on Hwy 81 at 6pm when I broke though the rain I though I was looking at a massive wall cloud I didn't find out until later I was staring at this monster. I am extremely lucky.
This tornado, the Joplin, and the Moore EF-5s are why I always get in my shelter, even if it seems like nothing at first. If the atmosphere is capable of producing it that day, I’m not risking it.
I'm an engineer and couldn't agree more. We design for 100 year storms and this one storm being misclassified ultimately changes that calculation. Who knows how many other storms were misclassified.
I think radar measured windspeed and size should be factored into the EF scale. Yes, it's important to have ways to measure damage, it's how FEMA decides how to respond. But ignoring this data hampers science and fails to acknowledge the potential these storms have to inflict catastrophic damage if only they generate over populated areas.
RIP Tiwstex watched him on storm chasers on the weather channel
People rightfully complain about the algorithm but in my opinion embedded mid-roll ad reads are the single worst thing that has ever happened to YouTube.